Integrated ISO ILL for staff users

Borrowing requests – part oneYoel Kortick

2007

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ILL Borrowing Requests

A borrowing (outgoing) request is made up of three parts:1. Bibliographic and item information2. Patron identifier and request

parameters such as Need By Date, Pickup Location, Willing to Pay Fee, and so on

3. Potential suppliers; only a single supplier is active at any one time

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Placing ILL Borrowing Requests ILL borrowing requests are placed by, or on behalf of, patrons who have ILL privileges. Patrons can create requests in the Web OPAC 1. from a displayed record (in which case

bibliographic information is automatically taken from the record)

2. by filling in a blank form.

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Placing ILL Borrowing Requests Staff can create requests on behalf of a patron in the Integrated ILL GUI 1. from a displayed record2. by filling in a blank form. Staff is limited to creating requests for patrons whose ILL Library (Unit) is the same as the staff user’s ILL Unit authorization.

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Processing ILL Borrowing Requests As a request moves through processing, the request undergoes status changes.

A status is changed 1. by operator intervention (by a Change

Status action)2. by system processing (for example, the result

of a ‘Locally owned’ check)3. by ISO ILL messages that are automatically

registered by the system.

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Processing ILL Borrowing Requests Each potential supplier listed for a

particular request is also assigned a status, which changes through actions

and processes.Sometimes the supplier status impinges

on the request status (for example, when a check on the last potential supplier results in ‘Locate Failed’, the request status also becomes ‘Locate Failed’).

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Processing ILL Borrowing Requests The ISO ILL Protocol and Implementation assigns statuses that will likely not be used in non-ISO communication, such as notification that the item has been shipped, notification that a requested item has been lent to the patron, and so onThese statuses are detailed in Appendix A of “ALEPH 18.01 User Guide - Integrated ILL”

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Processing ILL Borrowing Requests Some of the steps in the process are

optional, and some of the steps in the process can be performed by the system

in an unmediated manner. Therefore, the exact workflow of your library might match only some of the

workflow steps described here.

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Processing ILL Borrowing Requests Some of the steps in the process are

optional, and some of the steps in the process can be performed by the system

in an unmediated manner. Therefore, the exact workflow of your library might match only some of the

workflow steps described here.

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Processing ILL Borrowing Requests Each step in the workflow is dealt with in the following section as a manual (mediated) process.All manual tasks related to borrowing workflow are performed in the Borrowing tab of the Integrated ILL GUI.

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Processing ILL Borrowing Requests Borrowing requests are grouped for view

by status in the Summary view of the Borrowing tab.

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Processing ILL Borrowing Requests You will want to start in the Summary

mode of the tab, in order to get an overview of, and to navigate to, the

requests. This view acts as an index of the active

ILL requests. Statuses that require action are listed in bold.

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Processing ILL Borrowing Requests Actions are performed in the Functional

mode of the Borrowing tab. The workflow is described in the following

sections of this chapter. You will notice that after you create a

borrowing request (from the Borrowing menu, or from Search – Full Display – ILL

Request), the interface immediately switches to the Borrowing tab in

Functional mode, with the newly created request displayed, ready for action.

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Creating ILL Borrowing Requests As previously explained in the Staff User’s Guide to the Web OPAC, a patron can create an ILL Borrowing request in the OPAC. The following section deals with creating a request in the Integrated ILL GUI module.There are two options for creating an ILL request on behalf of a patron:1. From the Borrowing menu2. From full record display in the Search tab

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Creating ILL Borrowing Requests From the Borrowing Menu

Click the Borrowing menu, or press ALT + B. Then click the relevant button for you chosen format (serial or non-serial), for example, Create New Serial Borrowing Request:

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Creating ILL Borrowing Requests Or, click the buttons at the far right of the Borrowing bar (for Create New Serial Borrowing Request or Create New Non-Serial Borrowing Request):

After either choosing the borrowing menu or clicking one of the buttons on the far right a form will display:

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Creating ILL Borrowing Requests

Complete the form and click send

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Creating ILL Borrowing Requests The form in the previous slide is an example of a Serial form.Note that slightly different forms display, depending on where you initiate the request (from the Borrowing Menu or from Full Record), and depending on the material type (Serial or Non-serial). When a request has the Patron Note field filled in, it is automatically assigned a ‘mediated’ status.

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Creating ILL Borrowing Requests Staff is limited to creating requests for a patron who’s ILL Library (Unit) is the same as the staff user’s ILL Unit authorization.

staff user’s ILL Unit authorization

staff user’s ILL Unit authorization

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Creating ILL Borrowing Requests If your ILL Unit is set to check for local ownership, the request is checked against the catalog (the logical base of the ILL Unit) when placed by patron in Web OPAC, or by ILL staff in the Integrated ILL GUI.This is to prevent the library from ordering an item which they already own from another library.

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Creating ILL Borrowing Requests If it is found to be locally owned, a message pops up informing you of the situation. You can cancel the request, or continue, in which case the request status will be set to “Locally Owned”. In any case, whether the status is New, New Mediated or Locally Owned, you are transferred to the Borrowing tab, in Functional mode, to continue processing the request.

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Creating ILL Borrowing Requests From the full record display in Search mode

After finding a relevant record, from the full bibliographic record display in the lower pane, click ILL Request:

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Creating ILL Borrowing Requests A pop-up window appears; choose Borrowing Request

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Creating ILL Borrowing Requests A Serial or Non-serial form pops up, with the bibliographic information displayed in the form. Here is an example of a non-serial form:

Complete the form and click send

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Handling New ILL Borrowing Requests

The Borrowing workflow begins with the existence of a new borrowing request, created by a library patron in the Web OPAC, or by an ILL staff member in the Integrated ILL GUIThese requests are initially assigned one of the following statuses:

NEWNEM (New-Staff Review) LOW (locally owned).

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Handling New ILL Borrowing Requests

The request status is NEM if a patron note has been registered in the requestThe request status is LOW if a “locally owned” check was performed and the result was positiveOtherwise the status is NEW.

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Handling New ILL Borrowing Requests

You work with new requests in the Integrated ILL GUI’s Borrowing tab, in

Functional mode, where requests can be processed and where actions can be

taken.Borrowing tab

Functional mode

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Handling New ILL Borrowing Requests

The nodes in the Functional mode of the Borrowing tab are

1. “Borrowing Request List” (with display of the count of the number of requests in the list)

2. “Borrowing Request” (with display of the request number and status of the request

currently highlighted in the list), 3. sub-node “Request Log” (for displaying the

log of the request). The Bulk Operation nodes do not concern

us here.

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Handling New ILL Borrowing Requests

In order to work with a request:select it in the upper pane.

The request information displays in the lower pane, for view only

the action buttons that are relevant for a new request are located to the right of

the list in the upper pane.

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Handling New ILL Borrowing Requests

Request selected in upper pane

action buttons that are relevant for a new request are located to the right of the list in the upper pane

The request information displays in the lower pane

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Viewing New ILL Borrowing Requests To view New ILL Requests

1. Open the Borrowing tab (click the tab or press F5) and click Summary mode. This

is the starting place for handling requests.

From here, you can choose a status category, select the requests, and move them into the Functional mode for further action

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Viewing New ILL Borrowing Requests 2. Select the New or New - Staff Review

folder, to display summary information, and to select requests for processing

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Viewing New ILL Borrowing Requests You can choose a Status Display group from the drop-down list. Although the list offers grouping by:Type of request (Returnable/Non-returnable)Active SupplierOpen DateLast Activity Date

Only type and date are relevant for new requests

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Viewing New ILL Borrowing Requests 3. To work on a group of requests, highlight

a line to select it, and click Select, or double-click the line.

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Viewing New ILL Borrowing Requests The Borrowing tab changes to Functional mode, where requests can be processed and where actions can be taken.

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Locating possible suppliers The first task when dealing with new requests is to identify possible suppliers. Clicking the Locate button from the List of Requests initiates searching for the requested title on the catalogs of the possible suppliers, and thereby builds the list of potential suppliers for the request. The list of suppliers that are checked has been pre-configured for your ILL Unit, sensitive to the request type and the requested media.

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Locating possible suppliers

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Locating possible suppliers The reason we saw the “Locate Preview” menu on the previous slide is because we have “Preview on locate” checked in the borrowing menu:

The “Locate Preview” window allows you to review the “locate” process, to see which suppliers were checked, and the outcome of each check.

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Locating possible suppliers If the locate process succeeds the suppliers are assigned to the request and the request status changes to “waiting for process”

If the locate process fails the status changes to “Locate Failed”

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Locating possible suppliers Suppliers may be assigned manually via the lower pane “Add Supp” button in tab 4 “Suppliers”.

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Locating possible suppliers When suppliers are checked via the “Locate” button or the “Add Supp” button, the list comes from the predefined “potential suppliers” list

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Locating possible suppliers After clicking the “Add Supp” button in the lower pane this window will appear

List of potential suppliers

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Locating possible suppliers After choosing “Sioux City Public Library” it will appear in the lower pane tab 4 “Suppliers” tab.

Multiple suppliers may be added by again clicking “Add Supp”

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Locating possible suppliers

Now two potential suppliers are listed

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Sending request to supplier To dispatch the request to the first supplier in the list:

In the List of Requests, click Send.

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Sending request to supplier The request will be sent electronically, by e-mail, or a form will print, depending on supplier configuration.

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Locating possible suppliers The request status will then change to “Sent to Supplier”